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300	ImportError in simple setup	henrik@…	Adrian Holovaty	"First, let me just say that I might be doing something wrong and that this is not a bug. But after talking to some people on IRC it seems that it should work, at least no-one said ""oh, you cant do that"".

Reproduce what Im doing:

{{{
 $ django-admin.py startproject he
 $ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=he.settings.main
}}}

Then create a file:

{{{
 $ cat > he/foo.py
 from django.utils.httpwrappers import HttpResponse
 def bar(request):
     return HttpResponse(""foobar"")
 ^D

 $ python -c 'import he.foo; he.foo.bar()'
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File ""<string>"", line 1, in ?
 TypeError: bar() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)
}}}

Obviously Python can find the file. Then put this into he/settings/urls/main.py:

{{{
 (r'^$', include('he.foo.bar')),
}}}

Then run ""django-admin.py runserver"" and point the browser to see this error:

{{{
 Traceback (most recent call last):

  File ""/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py"", line 56, in get_response
    callback, param_dict = resolver.resolve(path)

  File ""/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py"", line 64, in resolve
    sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)

  File ""/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py"", line 62, in resolve
    for pattern in self.url_patterns:

  File ""/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py"", line 79, in _get_url_patterns
    self.url_patterns = self.urlconf_module.urlpatterns

  File ""/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py"", line 74, in _get_urlconf_module
    self.urlconf_module = __import__(self.urlconf_name, '', '', [''])

 ImportError: No module named bar
}}}"	defect	closed	Core (Other)		normal	invalid			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0